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    Good fish/depth finder and what power source?

    that's a really neat setup.. very nice, thank you for showing.. I had a small Garmin, with a little lead-acid 12V which would last for my season before needing a recharge, typically an outing a week for 2-3 months. A piece of Velcro glued to the bottom of the boat worked to hold the...
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    Video, of a guy tipping a canoe over in the middle of a Minnesota Lake

    that canoe looked like a yard sale even before he tipped it over.. no organization, no discipline, not a good start throw it all in the boat and hope the merciless gods of wind and water will treat you kindly for your ignorance ? not a plan. I've thought about an electric motor, but would...
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    What are your current solo canoes and how do you like them?

    whitewater: Dagger Caption, 14'4" and 70lb ow outfitted for both solo and tandem, mostly solo these days as my wife has jumped ship and my boys are out of the house.. great big-water boat, here on Zoom Flume on the Arkansas, many years ago.. also works well for whitewater tripping which I...
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    Upper Missouri River Guides: Montana Canoeing

    we did the trip in 1991, reading the L&C journals in a binder which the Ft Benton museum allowed us to check out for the trip. We found some old retired guy in Ft Benton to shuttle for us, don't recall that it was particularly expensive. First 3 days were delightful, then ran into stiff...
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    patching a new kevlar canoe

    there are a lot of them at slalom Nationals these days.. the turtle boat, John the builder in the bacon boat,
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    A cautionary tale of deaths on Shoshone Lake in Yellowstone.

    we did a trip there in the early 90s, came out on 4th of July into a snowstorm ;-) Up until then it had been cold but calm, a good trip. On the way out we paddled around the edge of the lake not more than 50ft from shore, and the same on Lewis Lake. It was chilling to see how big the waves...
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    Poll: How often do your canoe trips include fishing?

    some of my trips are primarily to go fishing.. with the family along, my wife's patience for me fishing has diminished over the years ;-) so typically will have fishing gear but not use it until in camp.
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    patching a new kevlar canoe

    this was the easiest patch job I've ever had with a canoe - it was brand new, and I talked to the builder about what he used to build the boat and what he prefers to patch with. No trawling through the historical forum posts to determine the best resin, which kind of composite to patch with...
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    Overcoming Fear of Whitewater

    my wife loves to canoe but hates swimming.. so we don't paddle tandem whitewater much anymore ;-) from the article, She imagined launching our innocent children down the lip of a raging torrent, fingers crossed, while I yelled, “Everything will be fine!” this may have happened to our...
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    2023 Leaf Change and Fall Color Where You Are

    pretty good in CO this year.. backpack into Rocky Mt NP, Up in Steamboat Springs, took the canoes up to Pearl lake, caught some grayling, their color was good too ;-) this Saturday is forecast for 6" of snow in Denver, more in the mountains. That's all folks.. for the colors this year.
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    Save the Moose 2023

    thank you, enjoyed the report.. that's how my elk hunts usually go, with a backpack instead of a canoe.. backpack miles in to an area which had lots of sign last year, this year there is no-one for miles around..
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    Share your opinion on a new canoe?

    thanks - nice work. I don't have much in the way of machine skills ;-) build you a rod, repair a reel, new gunwales on a canoe, that I can do.. fix a fence, mend a dent, I got lots of experience..
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    Share your opinion on a new canoe?

    I'm interested - what did you put together ? mine is a Lowrance Fish Hunter, a little buoy you throw in the water, with an app on the phone to show the results. it's nearly useless ;-) So looking for something portable that works a bit better..
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    A Question about Folding Saws

    as a 6'2" marathon runner I can confirm.. from my trip report, "The rain began, driven hard by an upstream wind into our faces, like being pelted with small cold pellets. The temperature was medium 40s. As this all soaked slowly into us, on a river which was snow yesterday, it became...
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    Rack Repair, and rant

    when I priced new racks for a Ford Maverick, Yakima thought it was perfectly reasonable to ask $1800 for them. Hahaha no. Still have the round Yakima racks with rain-gutter towers from my 82 Econoline, I found with my current pickup you can mount some c-channel to the camper shell and the...
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